Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?

I like the character but I don't think there's a been single comic with Carol Danvers in the starring role that I've really connected with. Comics-wise, she seems to work best as part of an ensemble.

"I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?"

yeah that may be: I should watch what i'm talking about cuz I don't read modern superhero shit.

as far as I remember the carol corps was a grassroots thing kicked off around 2012ish (as Andrew mentioned), partially as a reaction to Marvel's inability to market their own releases in any intelligent way

I mean, it's doing Disney/Marvel a great service by building enthusiasm for a character, but (and with a resigned sigh, here) the fact is that we're in a Marvel character moment and writers/artists pushing that attention toward characters that might actually be interesting or change the landscape seems like a lesser evil

Monica Rambeau > Carol Danvers

was that ever in question?

finally saw this over the weekend, thought it was pretty meh besides samuel l., who was incredible, and the cat, who was a very good cat indeed. i also liked that the directors let mendelsohn keep his natural accent, even though none of the other skrulls sounded like they came from the planet down undah.

i'm not familiar with the comics version of carol, but it feels like she'll suffer from the superman problem, namely that they'll have to nerf her abilities for 3/4 of whatever movie she's in before unleashing the glowing CGI version for the last 1/4 of the movie. maybe the inevitable sequel will match her up against a cosmic-scale villain that would actually pose a challenge.

The inevitable sequel is out later this month, so the chances are pretty good?

im talking captain marvel 2, not MCU 22 or whatever

Oh, you mean Shazam, that's in theaters rn

i mean kazaam

critical support for comrade carol’s compassion for the plight of space palestinians

imho this movie was a good colorful fun time, kinda missing that extra sprinkle of something that would have made me really fall in love with it... whether that was a sparkle of OTT silliness and defiantly geeky world-building (e.g. aquaman, alita) or a slightly more focused emotional arc. there were little bursts of Feelings but they didn't lock together for me. i think it needed another editing pass at the script stage - the Ronan stuff serves no real purpose within the movie that couldn't be served by characters that captain marvel actually knows and has some kind of relationship with. so we end up having to duck away from the main story of the movie for an (admittedly awesome) showdown with his spaceships, and then burn time getting back to the main story, so she actually has two final showdowns with her actual main antagonist. combined with the one-too-many-times gags (e.g. everything to do with the cat) i just had a strong sense that it could have been an unbelievably fun 105-minute movie and was instead a pretty fun 125-minute movie.

and yeah the needle-drops were a problem for me. if you're going to do nostalgia and really create a "woah yeah this feels like it's back then" vibe, do it right: pick one specific summer or at least one specific year and dial into songs a little ways down the chart, ones people remember but which have actually gone away in the interim. the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable. hire me, marvel! i've got the playlists you need!

larson was interesting throughout, very different take than most of these films have for their leads. i guess playing an amnesiac with a seemingly limited interior and personal life for most of the film does present some hurdles to getting to know a character, but it was a nice change of pace from the formulaic "establish that they're brave and plucky, but also smirky and they have a problem with authority" type stuff. the very brief flashbacks to her earlier life were surprisingly effective and made it feel like a real payoff when she does finally meet back with her old friends.

the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable.

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I have literally never heard this song before in my life

(joke writes itself)

seeing sam jackson’s slightly thick-waisted nick fury in endgame really underscored what a great job they did of turning a 70-year-old man into a very creditable fit-looking fortysomething here

i hope she gets to continue being a person out of time, like a captain america who got frozen in the early 90s and is struggling with the idea of pearl jam being played on classic rock stations.

back in the late 90s in my high school comics i had this running idea of a lost predecessor high school that got sealed away in the depths back in 1991. even back then that era seemed super removed (tho of course this has a lot to do with being 18) so there could be a lot of comedy there. as a superhero she has this dope costume, by day she's wearing hypercolor looney tunes jerseys or w/e. but that would require more commitment to the idea of period style than we saw in this movie, which doesn't even bother to give the extras 90s haircuts. the "grunge outfit" gag barely even registered.

this was good, plot predictably ludicrous but all the main turns were slick, larsen in particular is a superstar, hashtagging didnt over intrude, 8/10

saw this at a drive-in on a double feature with the Avengers flick

Mendo was pretty good

mendo is never not good

Cosi was a bit of a wank tbh

He dresses like that and carries a hammer because of he's the commander of a special strike force called the Accusers. And he was working with Thanos because Thanos gave him an Infinity Stone which helped him push his own political agenda. All of this was explained in the GotG movie and this one, you don't need any knowledge of the comic book Ronan

also, Josh, I saw the first Guardians twice and the second one once and the entirety of my thought process when he turned up was "oh it's that guy that Danny Hellman made jokes about some poster on the old TCJ messageboard who worked at FBI having the same name as, and... he... works for the big space-god-monster in these or something. Or maybe not yet? w/e, bad guy."

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

miss the days when my friend's dad had an old van and we were allowed to sit on sleeping bags on the roof of it at the drive-in as kids

Reminds me of the first time we flew to Australia, when iirc I watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the plane with plenty of more time to kill.

i'm choosing to read that as mh's story reminds you of the time you flew to australia in sleeping bags in the roof of the plane

watching the cinema of the sky, soundtracked by the roar of the jet engines

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I wonder if "eating a pie while driving and punching a dart" would have made it past Twitter's offensive content filters

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

sat in lawn chairs for Carol, got into the car for Endgame

due to the 47th parallel, though, apart from going for a piss during the credits, this meant being in the car from 23:45 til 04:15